On Tuesday, Feb 7th, 92 college students from across the state of Indiana, many traveling more than 2 hours one way, converged on downtown Indianapolis for DATS—Day At The Statehouse. This number is up over past years’ averages of 25-30.

The many students voiced concerns focused particularly about the state’s new evaluation model being pushed into schools which takes into account a school’s overall letter grade as well as student test scores. One male student even went as far as to talk about his days of being a ‘handful’ in high school and how wrong it would have been to have held his teachers accountable for his choosing to misbehave.

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AnonymousFebruary 13, 2012 at 4:08 pm

The “male student’s” name is Nicholas Reed. He was raised in Marion, Indiana. I was there along with him and fellow students from Manchester College. He did not mention himself specifically as much as he mentioned the entire student body refusing to listen.

It seems as though the article did not want to mention that fact, and instead single this student out instead of maintaining the idea that it was the entire student body acting as one. This student did not act alone.